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Re: The end-range is out of the range of the file, but curl doesn't care it.

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 07:59:01 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 29 Apr 2015, Hongyi Zhao wrote:

> In the above case, the rquested range is completely out of the range.
> Why curl still return will 0?

Because HTTP errors are not (necessarily) curl errors. curl got the HTTP (you
asked for) just fine.

> While for a local file, curl will return 36 if the rquested range is
> completely out of the range, see the following:

A bit inconsistent but on the other hand I don't think all protocols are alike
so I'm not entirely sure this is bad.

Are you suggesting we should change any of this?

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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Received on 2015-04-29